Paul Dawson is looking at death, again. He is 88 years old and one could say that death knocks a bit louder at that advanced age. Most would be inclined to add another lock to the door, pull the...

Scott Frank is seated outside Larsen’s on Dutcher Dock in Menemsha eating a bowl of clam chowder. The sky is big and gray, and the wind has picked up. He wears a baseball cap and a thick denim...

Slammy B and the Electric Snakes made their public debut in late June at their West Tisbury School eighth grade graduation. Not the after party but the graduation ceremony itself, where young Owen...

The words are on the page, but for Jennifer Joanou that is just the first step. In fact, by the time her creative process is done the words may no longer be visible. But they will be there, a...

The oxen are in the barn and the ferris wheel is resting high up in the blue sky. The games of chance stand in a row, the tilt-a-whirl remains tilted and a giant bounce house tiger sits at the ready...

According to Josh Biren, general manager of Back Door Donuts, to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest apple fritter two things needed to happen. “It needs to be big enough...

Philip Weinstein is a professor emeritus of Swarthmore College and also one of the country’s preeminent Faulkner scholars, along with his twin brother that is. But that is not important right...

When filmmaker Richard Gentile screened his first feature-length documentary at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC, he stopped to take a...

After nine years of providing fair winds for the nonprofit Sail Martha’s Vineyard, executive director Brock Callen has announced his retirement, the organization said. Mr. Callen began his...

Ben Moore, one of the first architects to set up shop on the Vineyard and a champion of affordable housing, died on May 10 at his home in West Tisbury. He was 82. A lifelong summer resident of the...